Most people think of their IP like a regular asset that upon their death will either transfer automatically or be handled easily by the executor
The thesis today is simple, yet alarming: A standard will and skimpy business operation documents can be a death sentence for your most valuable intellectual
Once you’ve invented that brilliant gadget or coined that killer brand name, who do you hire to protect it? The choices can feel like a
Your U.S. patent is powerful at the border! Even if knockoffs are manufactured and sold freely overseas without you being able to do much about
Before you even start manufacturing, you find out your invention would be infringing on another patent. Your freedom-to-operate search revealed a competitor holds a patent
Here’s the true cost of manufacturing your invention overseas. The minute you send your blueprints to a manufacturer, you introduce a massive risk of intellectual
Let’s look at the Two Scariest Patent Searches! An inventor should run two different types of patent searches, a patentability search and a freedom-to-operate search,
Welcome, innovators, to a critical lesson that separates successful patent entrepreneurs from those whose patents collect dust. I’m Julie King, and today I’m revealing the
Be careful not to let your trade secrets die with you, or you may accidentally kill your business. If you have a proprietary formula, customer
Fatal mistakes are often made when people unfamiliar with patent and trademark law leave that kind of intellectual property to people in their will or
The patent clock keeps ticking after you die! A utility patent is a time-sensitive asset. If you own the patent rights to your invention, you
Not having provisions about control of your business’ intellectual property in your business operating documents is a grave mistake in intellectual property protection.
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